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"The Strange Man in the Floating World" is the sequel to "The Fifth Child". The fifth child of Luo Wei's family, Ban, has grown up. Ban, who has a strange appearance and natural strength, was rejected by his family and was forced to run away from home. The simple mind hidden under his violent nature has led to him being exploited several times: he was tricked by drug dealers into smuggling drugs, and he was arrested by the scientific research center for research... Ban had the innocent hope of finding similar people, but he was constantly disappointed. This work is Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's rethinking of love and morality in her late creative period. Lessing, who has read a lot of life, points out the selfishness and cruelty of human nature with ingenious writing.

"Theatrical Style" is a particularly beloved work that Maugham claimed to have written in a very happy mood, using material from his life that he had been involved in the theater industry for many years - don't forget that he was once one of the most successful playwrights in British history. Julia Lambert is a famous actress on the British stage. She is a born actor. She is dazzling on the stage and confuses all living beings. However, off the stage, she falls into a dangerous passion with a young admirer. After being tortured and humiliated by lust, what saves her is still her infatuation with stage art. The painful life experience makes her control of characters more comfortable and her performance more proficient. She finally completes the redemption of lust in herself. Somerset Maugham used Julia's addiction and redemption to integrate life, humanity, lust, and art into one furnace, and performed it in a meticulous and penetrating way.

Japan's touching and heart-warming book of the year, a book that makes you laugh, cry, and gain strength from it... What everyone does may illuminate the lives of others. 33-Year-old Umino Shizuku suffers from a serious illness that is absolutely incurable. Shizuku didn't even tell her father, the only relative in the world, so she took a few necessary items and chose the Lion House, a sanatorium on Lemon Island in the Seto Inland Sea, as her last residence. Every Sunday is snack day at the Lion House. Everyone living here can propose the snacks they want to eat in the last moments of their lives. Only Shizuku has not made a choice. Bean curds, coriander, apple pie, peony cake, every snack is connected with a precious memory. Finally, Shizuku mustered up the courage to write "thousand-layer crepe", which was the first dessert she made for her father and the first birthday gift she gave to him.

In the vast sea of ​​people, I kept running, not daring to look back or stop for a moment, because I knew that once I stopped, my mind would go back to that snowy winter... I met Hu Jun because of that public elective class. The bell rang just a quarter before the class started, and I rushed into the classroom in a few steps. Fortunately, the "throne" that I had fought so hard to grab is still alive, so I couldn't be more happy. Seeing the envious and helpless eyes around me, I felt a rare sense of accomplishment. 

This book is the latest romance novel by the super-best-selling author and screenwriter Ren Haizhong. It unfolds as a love story between a rich, handsome and a low-income bourgeoisie woman. Liu Bai, a 26-year-old single mother who has been divorced for a year, met the young Chu Cheng while helping a friend, and the two began a sister-brother relationship. During this period, Liu Bai met Xiao again. Liu Bai gave up the man he loved most, chose the man who loved him most, and started a new life.

"Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first officially published work, and its light is often overshadowed by "Pride and Prejudice". In fact, the good things about "Sense and Sensibility" take longer to savor. The novel takes the twists and turns of the marriage turmoil of sister Elinor and sister Marianne as the main line. Through the humorous comparison of "reason and emotion", it raises issues of moral and behavioral norms. Although the two sisters have very different personalities, neither of them is willing to give in easily under the pressure of survival, and neither wants marriage to become just a "financial management product" in a certain sense. In Austen's view, only through this means of continuous self-improvement can women in a disadvantaged position achieve complete happiness.

"Crazy Love" is the masterpiece of Junichiro Tanizaki. The hero and heroine in the work maintain a husband-and-wife relationship that is "unprecedented in the world." Joji Kawai is an electrical engineer who is dedicated to his work and particularly admires the West. He met a girl named Naomi (this is the phonetic pronunciation, her original name was "Naomi") in a bar. He fell in love with her mixed-race and foreign-like appearance. He took pity on her poor family and took her to live with him. Rangzhi hopes to cultivate Naomi into a tasteful and educated woman and then marry her. So Rangzhi sent Naomi to English and dance classes, and also covered all her expenses. Later, Rangzhi married Naomi as he wished, but gradually realized that Naomi had developed the habit of being arrogant and spending money like water, and she also interacted with various men through taking classes outside. Rangzhi couldn't bear her debauchery and once drove Naomi out of the house. But because he realized that he had been conquered by Naomi's physical charm, his days were like years. Naomi frequently went in and out of the bungalow she shared with Rangzhi under the pretext of taking things, seducing Rangzhi and making him unable to control himself. In the end, the two returned to living together: Rang Zhi was willing to be abused, while Naomi was still playful, coquettish and willful.

On an island with a population of 1,400 people, 18-year-old young man Shinji meets a young girl named Hatsue. The young man has sincere eyes, strong and unrestrained. The girl's eyebrows are calm and bold. In summer, dreams are long, in autumn, days are short, and the two fell in love. But rumors spread throughout the village like the wind, and with the waves, it seemed that spring was coming to an end. Perhaps, everyone has a first love. We are all filled with innocence and enthusiasm for our first love. Like all good things, we have to make them happen.

"Her Past Love" is an important work by Julian Barnes, a literary genius who conquered Europe with his wisdom. The author Julian Barnes has won 17 literary awards, including the Booker Prize, and 2 French Medals of Honor. Julian Barnes is a truly indispensable figure in contemporary British literary circles and a master of postmodernism. "Her Past Love" depicts the other side of love, which is so dangerous but may be happening again around you and me. Every piece of your past that doesn't belong to me makes me crazy with jealousy. After ending a failed marriage, Graham was finally able to marry his second wife, Ann, a young and lively actress, and life seemed to become sweet and beautiful. Until one day, he saw a love movie that An once starred in, and became suspicious, suspecting that his wife was hiding something about her past. Graham is driven mad by jealousy and begins searching for traces of Ann's past love. Is An's past really unforgivable? Or... Jealousy twists it and makes it unforgivable?

In "Chao Sao", I finally experienced a love that has nothing to do with material things! The Japanese version of "Border Town" was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize three times and is a romantic work by the genius Yukio Mishima. On a small island far away from the hustle and bustle, the vast sea and lush green shrines protect everyone. As dusk grew darker on the beach, eighteen-year-old Shinji met the beautiful and lively girl Hatsue. In chance encounters again and again, pure and passionate feelings flourish... A romantic work that subverts Mishima's violent aesthetics, a pure and beautiful love song of youth. The restlessness, fatigue, and material burden you encounter in love will all be cured by "Chao Sao"!

The story begins in the Elizabethan era in the 16th century and ends in the "present day" when Woolf wrote in 1928, lasting four hundred years. Orlando was first an innocent aristocratic beauty who entered the court because he was favored by Queen Elizabeth. After King James ascends the throne, the Great Frost comes. Orlando meets a Russian princess and falls in love. As a result, he falls out of love and falls out of favor, and lives in seclusion in a country mansion. Orlando has been obsessed with literature and poetry since he was a child. The figure of Shakespeare is unforgettable for him. He manages to get acquainted with the slightly famous poet Green. Unexpectedly, he is teased again. In addition, he cannot bear the entanglement of the Grand Duchess of Romania, so he asks for a mission to Türkiye. After a fire in Constantinople, Orlando changed into a woman, left officialdom, and mingled among the Gypsies. Later, she returned to England, became a noble lady in the upper class, and met a group of famous literati at that time. Entering the Victorian era, in order to continue writing, Orlando could only compromise with the spirit of the times and marry a sea captain. By the end of the story, Orlando is already a prize-winning poet of the 20th century. She returns to the mansion that symbolizes tradition throughout the book, and comes under the big oak tree to review her eternal pursuit of literature and poetry.

Jiuga and Zi were young lovers. They reunited after many years of separation and experienced marriage, and their love was rekindled. However, just as the two were immersed in their hard-won happiness, Zi fell seriously ill. Whether to follow the original desire, or succumb to the pressure of the world; whether to live incomplete and painful, or to bloom and die with the wind. Azusa's choice may be another perfect answer...

Chunqin, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, is beautiful. She lost her sight due to eye disease when she was a child, but she has made great achievements in playing the shamisen. She has a noble nature and does not want to be looked down upon by others, and her personality has become increasingly eccentric. The person who takes care of her daily life is the servant Sasuke, who is four years older than her. He learns shamisen from Haruko, and gradually falls in love with her because of his contact with Haruko. Chunqin was disfigured in an accident. In order not to make Chunqin feel sad, Sasuke chose to blind his own eyes. The lady's eternal beauty remained in his mind. The two have lived together forever since then...

"Diary of a Mad Old Man" contains two representative novels by Junichiro Tanizaki, "Diary of a Mad Old Man" and "The Key". "Diary of a Crazy Old Man" depicts the twisted love of a "crazy" old man in his octogenarian years. The old man, who is physically exhausted, satisfies his inner desires through yearning for his daughter-in-law. This desire brought him to the verge of death, but his only wish was to rest forever under the tombstone with a rubbing of his daughter-in-law's foot.

The beautiful Mary Panton lost her beloved libertine husband a year ago. Fortunately, her husband died early due to a car accident and left some property for her. With some precious jewelry on hand, she was able to live a leisurely life. After burying her husband and cleaning up the family property, Mary came to Florence and rented a beautiful antique villa on a hill in the suburbs to rest her body and mind. Sir Edgar, Mary's admirer for many years and the "builder of the British Empire", has been prospering for many years and is about to be appointed Governor of Bengal. Before being appointed, he came to Florence to propose to her. But late one night, Mary's temporary infatuation led to a nightmarish act of violence. At the critical juncture, she had no choice but to turn to the notorious lothario Lawley Flint for help, and through him, she finally realized that denying love - and all the passion and adventure involved in it, was tantamount to denying life and life itself. Maugham's most mature short novel, the story is fascinating, the characters are vivid and vivid, and the insight into human nature is even more penetrating.

As children, Sarah and Emily were two very different girls. In Emily's eyes, her rational sister is always superior. She is jealous of her sister's relationship with her father (who left them due to divorce) and her sister's seemingly happy marriage. Emily chose a path for herself that was not so safe and unconventional. All the romantic affairs could not really satisfy her. Although the bond that binds the sisters has always existed, the distance between them has grown further and further until, finally, a tragic event throws their relationship into the center of a storm...

Virginia Woolf is a British female writer, known as the pioneer of modernism and feminism in the twentieth century, and a representative writer of British stream-of-consciousness literature. His major works include "The Waves", "Mrs. Dalloway", "To the Lighthouse", "The Ordinary Reader", "A Man's World", etc. It is one of the first attempts at Western modernist stream-of-consciousness novels. Literary critic Denis Poupard pointed out that Woolf believed that the traditional European narrative form had become artificial and restricted writers too much, making it difficult for them to express life in a poetic and impressionistic way.

"Modern Love and Infatuation" contains six sensual novels written by Tanizaki between his youth and middle age, all of which belong to the genre with high artistic achievements in his early creations. These works mainly revolve around "emotion", each exploring the abyss of human nature from a unique perspective, including the indulgence and indulgence of aestheticism, as well as the provocation and horror of sensual novels, forming a series of literary confessions that rebel against the times with desire. He also used this to add highly personal stylized creative practice and aesthetic experiments to the history of modern literature in Japan and the world. At the same time, this batch of works not only continues the fin-de-siècle aesthetics and "demonism" style of his early creations, but can also provide a glimpse of the theme types and prototypes of later classic novels: sensual pleasure and sorrow, the ravings and monologues of idiots in the floating world, the discovery of the existence of beauty in the gloom, and the display of the heat of life from the point of madness.

A number of bundles of letters were found in a cell in the old central prison. They were written by a woman, A'ida, to her lover in prison, Xavier. Ada's letter is full of longing for and longing for Xavier. They have the same ideals, but they can only share them through words. They love each other deeply, but they are not allowed to meet each other. Aida took the trouble to describe the daily trivial things that happened in the town - the townspeople's gatherings, the bugs on the trees, the music on the radio, the missiles that fell last week... In the seemingly ordinary and trivial things, we can vaguely smell people's anxiety about political oppression, and their inner panic about the turbulent war. At the same time, we can also read between the lines people's philosophy of no hesitation and their infinite desire for freedom and liberation. ─ No force can stop love and faith, and no violence can destroy the human heart.

"The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" is the most representative novel by the famous Japanese writer Mishima Yukio. The story is based on an actual arson incident in July 1950. Mizoguchi, a young man who was born with a stutter, came to the Kinkakuji Temple from a poor countryside to become a monk. He was obsessed with the beauty of the Kinkakuji all day long, imagining the magnificent scene of dying with the Kinkakuji in the war. However, the end of the war made this wish disappear forever. In despair, he resolutely burned the Golden Temple to the ground. It embodies Mishima's so-called "beauty of destruction".

Dr. Nibancho, a surgeon with stunning beauty and a prominent family background, is a popular target in the hospital. However, she has always remained single in the face of many suitors. Nurse Marikata Murakata is full of curiosity about her mysterious charm. In the process of treating dancer Reiko Fukamachi's leg disease, Mariko gradually discovers the extreme emotions and cold heart of Dr. Nibanmachi's beautiful appearance...

"Bielande": The main fact is very simple, but the intertwined factors are bizarre; because a person's external appearance may be simple, his behavior may be boring, and not worth talking about, and his mental and emotional fluctuations are always complicated. In the case of Pierrelande, the accidents of all sizes caused her tragedy from beginning to end. In the play, her misfortune seems to be incomprehensible; for other characters, all developments are in line with the logic of struggle. Not only are they expected, but the motivations and goals are very clear. After careful planning and deliberate promotion: Pierrelande is just an ant they stepped on on the ladder to climb up. In the eyes of readers without sentimental temperament, parallel to Pierrelande's tragedy is an ugly drama played by the big and small bourgeoisie.

The plot of "The Moon and Sixpence" is based on the life of the French post-impressionist painter Gauguin. The protagonist was originally a securities broker. After reaching middle age, he suddenly responded to the call of his heart and abandoned everything to live with the indigenous people on the island of Tahiti in the South Pacific. He gained inspiration and created many artistic masterpieces. Maugham deeply explores the contradictions and interactions between life and art in his novels. The plot of "The Moon and Sixpence" is not complicated. It tells the story of a broker on the British Stock Exchange. He already had a solid career and status, and a happy family, but he became obsessed with painting and felt like he was "possessed by the devil." He suddenly abandoned his home and went to Paris to pursue his ideal of painting. No one could understand his behavior. In a foreign country, he not only suffered physically from poverty and hunger, but also endured mental pain in search of expression techniques. After some bizarre encounters, the protagonist finally leaves the civilized world and escapes to the isolated island of Tahiti. He finally found peace of soul and an atmosphere suitable for his artistic temperament. He lived with an indigenous woman and created one masterpiece after another that shocked later generations. Before he contracted leprosy and became blind, he painted a great work depicting the Garden of Eden on the fourth wall of his house. But before his death, he ordered the indigenous woman to burn the painting after his death. Through such a geek who devoted himself to the pursuit of art and had no understanding of human nature, Maugham explored the origin and essence of art, the relationship between personality and genius, the contradiction between artists and society, and other thought-provoking issues.

Popular writer Alroy Keel wanted to write a biography of the late famous writer Driffield, but he knew little about the young Driffield, so he asked Driffield's friend, another writer Ashenden, for help. Under Keel's insistence, Ashenden recalled his early relationship with Driffield and his ex-wife Rosie. "Pleasure", also known as "Family Scandal", was published in 1930 and is Maugham's favorite novel. The author changes the prejudice against women in his previous works and draws materials from the real literary and artistic circles. He recalls the life of a beautiful woman as an admirer and sarcastically embellishes it with interesting anecdotes from the literary and artistic circles.

The art critic Reger would go to the Kunsthistorisches Museum every other day and sit in front of Tintoretto's painting "The Man with the White Beard" for more than thirty years, until one day his wife passed away. Six months later, he appeared in front of the portrait again and invited his old friend Atzbacher to meet him at the museum the next day. Through Atzbacher's eyes we get to know Reger - the death of his wife, his thoughts about suicide, his comments about the masters, and finally, the purpose of the meeting. At once pessimistic and elated, both hateful and hilarious, The Masters is a satirical comedy about culture, genius, nation, class, artistic merit and human pretension.

"Kitchen Peace" was written by Junichiro Tanizaki in his later years (76 years old). Based on his own experience, he recalled the stories of several maids who worked in Chikura Raiyoshi's home (mainly in Kyoto and Atami) from Showa 10 to Showa 33. During the Showa era, a simple and lovely young girl from the countryside came to work as a maid in a wealthy family in a big city, and gradually matured. The works vividly depict women with different personalities, ranging from innocence to tenacity to sophistication. Different from the style of Tanizaki Junichiro's representative works, the work is based on the writer's real life, a mixture of fiction and reality, relaxed and interesting, and also full of the author's long-standing exploration of women and praise of female beauty.

The contents of this book include Ian: On the Inspiration of Poetry; The Republic: The Ruler's Literature and Music Education, and the Poets' Crimes; Phaedrus: On Rhetoric; Hippias the Great: On Beauty; The Symposium: On the Love of Beauty and Philosophical Cultivation; Philipbus: On the Sense of Beauty; Law: On Art Education. Finally, there are also content such as explanation of the problem and translation postscript: Plato's aesthetic thoughts.

"Writer's Writer" Borges, transcript of a Columbia University writing class. Talk about novels, poetry, and translation, break the rules of writing, and teach the secrets of becoming a master. Jorge Luis Borges was a world-class writer who knew the rules of writing and knew how and when to break them. He is a magician of language, like all the best jugglers and poets. Once the trick is revealed and the poem comes out, he will make us feel that this has always been there, somewhere in our hearts, but we have not been able to express it. In the spring of 1971, Borges was invited to lecture at a writing class at Columbia University. He analyzed his own work and used examples to help others improve theirs. Each lecture focuses on a theme: talking about writing novels, talking about writing poetry, and talking about translation. Everyone present was given Borges's short story "The Duel (Part Two)" and six of his poems, as well as examples of different translations of Borges's works. Borges commented line by line and explained the creative process in detail. "Borges, Writing Lesson" is based on the audio transcript of the lecture, and has not been edited in order to preserve the originality. The original Spanish text and English translation of the examples given in the class are also attached for comparative reading.

"Theory of Semiotics" is the theoretical masterpiece of Italian semiotician Umberto Eco. It successfully constructed a theoretical system of general semiotics. It is the authoritative semiotics treatise after Saussure and Peirce and is highly respected in Western academic circles. The book is divided into five chapters, which respectively elaborate on the basic terms, concepts and theoretical systems of semiotics, and conduct creative explorations of "code theory" and "symbol production theory". This book provides the theoretical community with a classic theory of general semiotics, and Eco's lifelong research and creative path is undoubtedly the best example of the relationship between semiotics and writing, and even literary theory and writing.

"Aspects of the Novel" is a series of lectures given by Forster in Cambridge in 1927. It was widely praised in the history of literature and had an important influence on later literary creation and literary criticism. This book is characterized by a clear, comprehensive and easy-to-read structure. The author uses his own writing as a starting point and conducts in-depth analysis against famous works in literary history, including some sharp comments on writers such as Fitzgerald and Henry James. In this series of lectures, Forster talked about the relationship between novels and reality, proposing the view that novels are both larger than reality and smaller than reality; he proposed the views of "flat characters" and "round characters", which became terms often used by later critics; he proposed that "the function of the novelist is to reveal the hidden life from its roots". The discussion of narrative angles and artistic expressions such as patterns and rhythms is particularly pioneering and inspiring.

Collection of lectures, in the autumn of 1967, Borges was invited to give the Norton Lectures at Harvard University and delivered six lectures on the status of poetry, metaphorical patterns, novels and poetry, phonology and translation. After more than thirty years in the library, the audio tapes of the lectures were compiled and published by Treasurer Kelin-Ander Mihaile, who was then an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures at the University of Western Ontario. The complete collection is widely cited and covers many literary phenomena from ancient times to the present. It also has the informal sense of colloquial text, and it is narrated with ease. "The Art of Poetry is a book that introduces literature, taste, and Borges himself... Borges started a dialogue with writers and texts of all ages, and these themes always seem to be interesting even if they are quoted and discussed again and again."

"Storymaster" Maugham's guide to reading and writing is dedicated to everyone. Maugham, known as the "story master", is well-deserved for his global reputation. His works have been introduced and published in many countries, and his writing experience and writing skills are also talked about by the majority of literature lovers. In his later years, Maugham published the book "The Summing Up", which is not only a review of Maugham's life writing career, but also a summary of Maugham's many years of writing experience. Through this book, readers can comprehensively master writing skills. For example, how to read a book efficiently? How to improve writing skills? How to enhance sensitivity? How to write good articles that are clear, concise and pleasant to the ears? How to write a drama to quickly win hearts and minds? How to use techniques when writing novels? How to improve comprehension and cognition through reading? In this book, Maugham explains the profound meaning of reading and writing with humorous language and sharp and concise style.

"Six Lectures on Dostoevsky" is a classic work on Dostoevsky by the famous French writer Andre Gide. This book is a collection of six lectures on Dosage Principe given by Gide in 1922. In this series of lectures, Gide's main focus was on how Dostoevsky's thoughts were expressed in a "literary" way. By interpreting Dostoevsky's letters and novel texts, he analyzed Dostoevsky's literary thoughts and artistic style layer by layer. He went deep into the inner world of Dosage and the characters he created, and discovered the main characteristics of Dossier's creations such as the mutual transformation of humility and arrogance and the duality of the characters' thoughts. Gide regarded Dosage as a genius novelist and "the greatest of all writers". His interpretation of Dosage brought a strong French reading experience and at the same time showed readers a healthy mental life. This is a spiritual communication between two great writers across time and space, and it is a precious document for studying Dostoevsky.

Somerset Maugham, author of "The Moon and Sixpence": A Guide to Reading and Writing for Young People. The genius novelist Maugham is known as the "Master of Storytelling" and has won almost all honors in the European literary world. In his later years, Maugham personally talked about his reading experience and writing skills, and published this book to help more readers fully master: How to read a book efficiently? How to improve writing skills? How to enhance sensitivity? How to write good articles that are clear, concise and pleasant to the ears? How to write a drama to quickly win hearts and minds? How to use techniques when writing novels? How to improve comprehension and cognition through reading? Maugham uses humorous language and a sharp and concise style to explain to you the secrets of reading and writing. After reading this book, you will suddenly realize it and gain endless benefits!

Is the scroll in the bottle hidden in the Golden Scale Temple a good way to save the world or a Pandora's box?

This is a dark revenge love story that is "gorgeous" in the fashion world. A girl who only had beauty and happiness in her life suddenly encountered a huge change in her family fortune. The darkness and cruelty of the real world completely overturned her destiny. Not only did she lose her father when she was young, she was even sent to a juvenile correctional facility. The story begins on the day she walked out of the Juvenile Correctional Institution... Inheriting her father's design talent, in the glamorous but cruel and indifferent fashion world, she step by step became one of the top fashion designers with extraordinary perseverance and agility. And behind all this, there is only one purpose - revenge. All the secrets of youth are unfolding, that dusty memory, the pale and thin boy who has been silently guarding him, what kind of story will happen on the first night when the roses are in full bloom?

This collection of essays are all independent chapters, and the topics discussed involve reading, thinking, writing, language learning, destiny, survival and many other aspects. The materials for these topics all come from our daily lives. Therefore, ordinary readers can also follow Schopenhauer's lead and start from familiar things to appreciate his grand vision. Schopenhauer's articles are meaningful and have clear views. "Their thinking points directly to the things themselves" and "We should think like great men and express like ordinary people" ("On Writing and Style"). Readers who have read Schopenhauer's work, whether they agree with Schopenhauer's views or not, will probably have no objection to this: Schopenhauer always practices his own views and expresses his thoughts objectively and clearly.

As Tocqueville's masterpiece, "The Old Regime and the Revolution" starts from the background, motivation and mechanism of the French Revolution to analyze the puzzle of social transformation, trying to answer the following questions: Why did the French Revolution come suddenly during the reform? Why did prosperity hasten the arrival of the Great Revolution? Why does reducing people's burdens lead to riots? Why did the outcome of the Revolution deviate from its original intention? What kind of futures do countries in transition have? Etc.

"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is the first novel written by the twentieth-century modernist literary master James Joyce (1882-1941) using the "stream of consciousness" technique. It is also one of the earliest and most successful stream-of-consciousness novels in the history of world literature. The novel has a strong autobiographical flavor and mainly describes how Stephen, a young man in Dublin, tries to get rid of the various influences that hinder his development - family constraints, religious traditions and narrow nationalist sentiments, and the painful process of pursuing the true meaning of art and beauty. In fact, it is a portrayal of the young Joyce's mental journey from awakening to maturity. Joyce's subsequent masterpieces such as "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake" can be regarded as the sequel to "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

The story in this book takes place in the early 20th century. Strickland was a wealthy middle-class stockbroker in London, living a comfortable and stable life with his family. His desire for art drove him to abandon everything, stay away from his wife and children, and live a poor life as a painter in Paris. A few years later, Strickland came to Tahiti. The almost primitive customs and customs allowed him to find himself and reach the peak of his creation. There he married a wife, had two children, died of leprosy, and then had his most remarkable creation burned to the ground in accordance with his wishes. It is said that the prototype of Strickland was the French Impressionist painter Gauguin. This book adopts a first-person perspective and interweaves the narrator's memories with the oral accounts of others to describe the life of Strickland. It is Maugham's work in his heyday. Since its publication in 1919, it has caused a sensation around the world.

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of "Foucault's Pendulum", author Umberto Eco carefully revised the novel, added several illustrations, and rewritten chapters. This book is based on "Foucault's Pendulum" revised by Umberto Eco in 2013. In Milan in the 1970s, Dr. Casaubon, a scholar proficient in medieval history, and his two friends, Belbo and Diotallevi, senior editors of Garamon Publishing House, were responsible for publishing a set of "Hermes Series" aimed at making profits. The three partners claim to be knowledgeable and skilled, and in a playful spirit, they weave the many mysterious events, characters and associations circulating in history into a seamless "plan", almost "rewriting" and "rewriting" the entire world history. In order to make the "plan" more complete, they created a secret society: "Teleis".

"John Christopher" is a novel that reflects a series of contradictions and conflicts in real society through the protagonist's life experience, and promotes humanitarianism and heroism. The novel describes the protagonist's life of struggle, from the awakening of his musical talent as a child, to his contempt and resistance to the powerful in his youth, to his career pursuit and success as an adult, and finally to the lofty state of spiritual tranquility. It vividly expresses the struggle and passion of the generation at the beginning of the 20th century with grand and beautiful artistic techniques.

"Where Angels Fear to Go" is Forster's first novel and his most famous work. The title of the book is taken from the second half of a poem by the English poet Pope. The deliberately omitted part is "The fool breaks in." Through the description of several love affairs and marriages, the novel expresses the sharp opposition between the dull, hypocritical and artificial British middle-class society and the vibrant, passionate Italian secular life, and eulogizes the breakthrough of secular prejudice and the pursuit of a natural and straightforward life. The plot arrangement is neat and ingenious, and the characterization of the characters and the capture of momentary emotions and moods are meticulous and penetrating. It is a masterpiece about the world and human nature.

"I" - Charles Strickland, an ordinary middle-aged securities broker. In order to escape this ordinary life, I abandoned my wife and children, crossed the English Channel and went to Paris. When I arrived in a foreign country, I was poor and sick, but I understood: I must paint, just like a drowning person must struggle. One day, I set foot on an isolated island in the South Pacific. On the island, I got married again, but fortunately, I finally painted a rare masterpiece in the world. What followed was a serious illness, and then a fire. Finally, on the street where sixpences were everywhere, I saw the moon.

Wertheimer's misfortune was that just as he passed Room 33 on the second floor of the Mozart Institute, Glenn Gould happened to be playing the Goldberg Variations there, playing the so-called aria. Wertheimer later told me his experience, saying that he stood in front of the door of Room 33 and listened to Glenn until the end of the aria. I understood then what kind of horror this was. This monologue novel describes three people's artistic pursuit of piano playing and their different life choices: one becomes a miracle, one sinks, and one turns to another path.

In the winter of 1919-1920, Maugham, who was forty-five years old, came to China and traveled 1,500 miles up the Yangtze River. The product of his trip was these short or long "materials" that could have been written into novels, which were concatenated into "a set of narratives of his trip to China"; In 1922, when Maugham was achieving great success as a playwright, short story and novelist, and even a socialite, he put it all aside and embarked on a long and arduous trip to Southeast Asia. The contents of "His Majesty's Representative" are selected from Maugham's travel notes written after these two trips. "Translation Huacai" is a new book series launched by Shanghai Translation Publishing House. The theme is clear and published in volumes, with five types in each volume, with exquisite covers that match the theme style. It is designed by the new generation of outstanding designer Zhou Weiwei. In terms of content, we make full use of the powerful and widely recognized translation resources of Shanghai Translation Publishing House to extract famous works from them into a volume. The theme of the first volume is "Wandering", including Gide, Hemingway, Lawrence, Nagai Kafeng, Maugham The travel writings of five famous literary figures include Gide's "Abandoning Travel", Hemingway's "Paris Never Ends", Lawrence "The Wandering Stranger", Nagai Kafeng's "Whispers on the Lotus Wind" and Somerset Maugham's "On His Majesty's Representation".

This book is a collection of short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, which includes ten short stories, including the most classic works such as "Rashomon", "The Nose" and "In the Bamboo Forest". In Akutagawa's writing, the spider's thread connects the paradise and hell, and the good and evil of human nature sway between this soft spider thread. Ryunosuke Akutagawa, an old soul who is too precocious and sees life too thoroughly, constantly reflects and dialectics on the issues he faces in his own life in the world, and uses his pen to penetrate human nature to reveal the root causes of the era and the troubles of society.

"Everything I touch turns to gold. Everything." Auspicious stars are shining. Is this a blessing or a curse? Why do young winners in life choose to commit suicide? From the "American Dream" to the "American Nightmare." Arthur Miller is one of the greatest contemporary playwrights and is known as "the conscience of American drama." This play is Arthur Miller's first play on Broadway. It explores the loss of order and moral collapse during the Great Depression, and asks a question that seems to have no answer - "Is fate fair?" In the eyes of people around him, David Beavers is an out-and-out "winner in life" - he is young, has a happy family, a successful career, and a lot of good luck. All obstacles can disappear in front of him, as if some god has given him the ability to turn stone into gold. However, his auspicious stars constantly reveal the tragedy of those around him, and before he knows it, his path to success turns into a nightmare of doubt. He is struggling to find some clear operating rules in a seemingly irrational universe, and his despair brings him to the edge of madness... The play is permeated by the fear of failure and the guilt of success, which runs through almost all of Arthur Miller's subsequent works. It was through this play that Miller "began to get a taste of what it was like to be a playwright, and maybe even a human being."

The short story collection consists of three parts, including Miller's short story collection "I Don't Need You Anymore" published in 1967, the novella "The Life of an Ordinary Girl" published in 1995, and "Existence", a collection of the last short stories published during his lifetime, totaling 16 pieces. Among them, 6 articles included in "Existence" were originally published in magazines such as "The New Yorker", "Harper's", and "Esquire", and are recognized as representing the highest achievement of Miller's novel creation. Since the collection of short stories was first published by Bloomsbury Publishing House in the UK in 2009, it has received many praises. The Los Angeles Times Book Review said, "There is no doubt that these short stories remind us that this outstanding dramatist is also an excellent novelist."

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